Manufacturing Supervisor - 2nd Shift

About the position

In Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) business, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives. This position works out of our location in Minnetonka, Minnesota in the Electrophysiology (EP) business. In this role you will be responsible for driving the process of continuous improvement and lean manufacturing principles. Additionally, you will lead the shifts' performance with respect to safety, quality, on-time delivery and cost.

Responsibilities

• Maintain high level of visibility with production staff.
• Use hands-on approach to communicate daily and involve production staff in problem solving.
• Develop a high-performance work team with high levels of worker morale, satisfaction, and performance.
• Create and maintain a respectful work environment by listening, seeking facts to support decisions, managing one's own reactions, and addressing unacceptable behavior.
• Help production staff succeed through performance management.
• Provide coaching and performance communication to support development.
• Review general status of project build schedules to identify and resolve problems.
• Ensure the desired product quality levels are achieved through use of standard work and training to those standards, training in operation and inspection techniques, and use of tools/data.
• Support and implement new, customer-focused processes in accordance with lean principles and practices.
• Provide training and coaching to improve standard work, work center organization (5S), and housekeeping.
• Actively provide change leadership as required.
• Support and foster an environment of continuous improvement by encouraging production staff to challenge existing processes and implement solutions that enhance the overall effectiveness of the operation.
• Support production staff in understanding company policies and practices.
• Maintain time and production records.
• Take notice of process related problems and support production staff in taking corrective action to improve the overall performance of the team.
• Communicate with and listen to production staff on a daily basis regarding work team performance, strategic initiatives, policy changes, safety, quality, etc.
• Communicate with other supervisors and appropriate personnel regarding equipment, safety, work center schedules, company policies and practices, performance improvement plans, etc.
• Communicate with and provide necessary support to new product development teams.
• Hires and retains a diverse, highly qualified staff and provides ongoing performance feedback.
• Maintains a safe and professional work environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree: BA / BS required with 4 - 6 years operations/technical/quality experience, or 10 or more years of directly relevant technical/operations/quality experience sufficient to demonstrate the knowledge typically associated with the degree and experience requirement.
• Knowledge of AMM or similar inventory management system.
• Must have the ability to analyze and problem solve in a timely manner, handle multiple tasks, work under pressure.
• Knowledge/ understanding of business metrics.
• Knowledge of the Quality System with understanding of the CAPA system and interrelated systems.
• Demonstrated success in error resolution, conflict management and working in a team environment.

Nice-to-haves

• Two or more years of supervisory experience in manufacturing or related field preferred.

Benefits

• Free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.